59 Geo-distributed Deployments One Authoring, several read-only environments. Practical scenario: Web publishing solution (a.com site) where you have authoring (R/W) and different Read-only production environments. out of the box tools for content deployment where you can publish content from one environment to multiple web server farms. WAN acceleration: read/write scenarios with offices across the world. Practical scenario: A highly collaborative environment where an organization has offices WW. The compression algorithms along with the HTTP traffic acceleration should yield good results. There are several Microsoft SharePoint partners that offer a SharePoint-specific WAN acceleration solution. (Certeon,Tacit, F5) Replication: Different environments that need to host similar content Different offices want to maintain their own environment but want to sync up with a central environment. iora, CommVault, Veritas. Client/server replication: enable users to be able to take content offline. Outlook 2007 and Groove or Digi-link.